Avril Lavigne probably is pregnant as we mentioned yesterday, because now TMZ is reporting that she plans to marry her fiance, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley this summer.

She also is said to wants kids right away, which is celebrity-code for “I’m pregnant.”

Avril is said to be planning a reception with circus performers, comedians and popular rock bands. She’ll probably make a mint off selling the pictures.

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Tom Cruise opens up about his painful childhood in an upcoming interview with Parade magazine. He could not rely on his father, who was unpredictable and abusive:

Tom said that he felt like an outcast as a child and had “no really close friend.” His battle with dyslexia served to further isolate him and was “an absolute affront to my dignity.”

We feel sorry for Tom, and have some insight into his character. It’s still not a good enough excuse for him to serve as a spokesperson for the cult of Scientology.

Liz Smith points out that it doesn’t matter if Tom gets bad press – as long as he continues to get press. Tom made a fool of himself while promoting War of the Worlds on Oprah and The Today Show. War of the Worlds was a big hit though, and Smith predicts MI3 will be, too.

Tom seems to realize this, and has even pledged to go back on the Today Show with Matt Lauer!

Smith also provides insight as to why Cruise would be sharing stories of his dysfunctional childhood at this point in his career:

Meanwhile press-hungry Tom has confirmed that he plans to marry his pregnant fiance Katie this summer. He may not have have much time to spend with his new bride while he’s promoting Mission Impossible 3.

The rumors that Nicole Kidman, 38, and Keith Urban, 38, are getting hitched seem to come up frequently, but this time there’s a decent reason: Nicole has been granted an annulment from her 11 year marriage to Tom Cruise. This clears the way for her to marry again in a Catholic ceremony.

It is also rumored that Kidman’s parents want her to make Urban sign a prenupital agreement so that he can’t get his hands on her fortune.

Meanwhile there’s supposed to be a scandalous reason behind Nicole and Tom’s divorce that may be revealed by the surveillance tapes that were seized in an FBI investigation of the private eye that Tom hired to snoop on Nicole. No one seems to know what the scandal is exactly, so the mere existence of one doesn’t mean that it’s newsworthy.

Like everyone else, we assumed that the Jolie-Pitts were flying back to the states when they were photographed three days ago at the airport. That’s why we didn’t publish these pictures of Brad flying in Nice when we came across them earlier today – we assumed they were old.

It turns out that the famous couple flew to the south of France and that the unexpected venue afforded the Jolie-Pitts a precious few days out of the spotlight. These photos are of Brad flying yesterday.

Speculation is rampant that bitter Jennifer Aniston may beat her ex to the altar, and that Oprah will host the wedding!

And despite the sneaky way that Aniston got Oprah to endorse James Fry’s lousy psuedo-memoir (to promote the hoped-for film, for which Aniston owns the movie rights), Oprah has agreed to host Aniston’s wedding at her estate. Aniston reportedly wants a huge lavish affair to show the world how utterly petty and wasteful she can be. (She also probably can’t have the thing at her house since it’s overrun with rabbits.)

No matter what she does or who she attaches herself to, you can be sure that Aniston won’t be happy.

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We were wrong yesterday when we said that Hillary Swank and Chad Lowe were probably over. Guess they just don’t have photographers following them around everywhere like other celebrities. In Touch reports that the cute couple are renewing their vows:

That is good news and we wish them all the best. Guess those pets were enough to cement their relationship after all. In related news, Mike Myers and his estranged wife also share custody of their dogs.

Life & Style says that Pitt called Aniston to warn her to prepare for news of the couple’s wedding.

If this is true, and we doubt it, it may mean that the Jolie-Pitts were planning to get married at some point, somewhere – or that they did already get married and managed to hide it. If only they were friends of Chloe Sevigny, we could be assured that this is true.

The Jolie-Pitt clan traveled back to the States today. It looks like Angelina’s mother won’t get her dying wish to have her grandchild born in France, but with Jolie you never can tell.

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We have no clue if Independence Day has some significance to the cult of Scientology, although the movie of the same name certainly has some parallels with their belief system. Rumor has it that Tom and Katie plan to get married on the Fourth of July according to the magazines Celebrity Living and Star:

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about upcoming wedding plans for the two, so take this for the rumor that is is. We are still waiting for news of Tom’s ex, Nicole Kidman’s supposed upcoming wedding to Keith Urban. It is a smidgen more substantial now that two gossip rags have jumped on the news.

Here are pictures of Katie and Tom out last night.

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So nothing happened this weekend in the Italian region of Lake Como, just like we said about three times. Clooney is always right, and he denied knowing anything about a wedding a while ago. He also said he wasn’t that tight with Pitt.

The poor residents of the area where it was supposed to go down were all worked up for no reason. They did get to cash in on the notoriety of the non-event, though:

We think it was all a rumor to drum up Italian tourism and the paparrazi business, although neither seemed to be suffering before.

Yesterday we reported that it looked like not much is going to happen with the latest Jolie-Pitt wedding rumors. TMZ reports that it doesn’t matter if the wedding actually happens, because the paparazzi are getting paid just for creating a stir:

Meanwhile USWeekly has one off live blogging from the non-event at Lake Como:

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This reminds me of the google research frenzy I was in yesterday trying to dig up information on Gisele Bundchen’s new date. It turns out she was just having a business dinner. I so wanted to run that story and like to think that a few people would have repeated it.

Here’s Brad taking a flying lesson on March 15th. He has the same instructor we’ve seen with Angelina.

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Reports that Pitt and Jolie are marrying in Italy has Italian villiagers and reporters all in a tizzy. A local hotel is cleaning up in what is said to be preparation for the wedding. It sounds like a hoax to us:

We reported a few days ago that the couple was said to be planning a wedding on a boat in the middle of Lake Como, but that we thought the story was pulled out of someone’s butt.

Other rumors include:
Brad Pitt’s family supposedly wants him to marry Angelina right away. They think Brad should secure his rights to the children should the couple break up.

And skinny Angie is said to be planning plastic surgery should she have trouble shaping up after the baby is born.

Even if she gains a few pounds or sags in places, she’s sure to remain the favorite pin-up of lesbians everywhere.